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WASHING MACHINE. No. 344,700. 7 Patented June 29, 1886..

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WASHING MACHINE.

(ModeL) Patented June 29, 1886.

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WASHING- MACHINE.

forming part of Letters Patent No. 34l,700,dz1ted June 29, 1886,

Application filed July 17, 1855.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EMMET G. WEBER, a citizen ofthe United States, residing at Owatonna, in the county of Steele and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in \VashingMachines, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of this device. Fig. 2 is a detail in section of the vessel or tub and the support secured thereto.

Fig. 3 is a detail in central vertical section of the shaft to which the poundcrs are attached. Fig. at is a detail central section vertically through one of the poundcrs. Fig. 5 is a detail in perspective of the tub and pounder support.

This invention relates to that class of washing machines known more particularly as heaters or poundcrs, and the novel ty consists in the construction and combination of the several parts, all as will now be more fully set forth and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, A represents the tub or vessel for the water, and in which the heating or pounding operations are carried on. On one side to the edge or rimof A is attached the support B by means of its two pairs of depending legs, I) I). Each pair straddles the rim, the longer leg,b,of each pair coming inside the tub, and the shorter one, b, outside. The set-screws b in the outer legs clamp the support firmly to the tub. This construction insures a firm fastening. In the upper face of the support is a dovetail groove, Z), in which slides the lower and horizontal part, c, of the base 0, which gives support to the operative parts of the device. The part c is fixed firmly upon the support B by set-screw c, which passes through the slot b in this part. By this construction the base 0 can be placed in any desired relation to the edge of the tub to secure in tubs of varying sizes a central position of the poundcrs in the tub. It is not absolutely necessary to have the dovetails, but they afford a very convenient and steady guide.

On each side of the vertical part c of the base 0 are pivoted the ends of arms (I of the handle D. The other end of said handle extends over the opposite edge of the tub. 13etween these arms and centrally in the tub is Serial No 171,861. (Modoh) pivoted, by gimbals c, the sleeve E, in which the vertical shaft F may be horizontally turned or by means of which it can be swung to or fro. Below the gimbals ethe pounder-arrns g are radially fixed to the shaft F. At the lower end of the shaft F is fixed one of the poundcrs, G, and to the ends of each of the radial arms 9 is secured a pounder, G, by means of the neck g, whichprojects through horizontal slot 9', and is held in any desired horizontal position in said slot by thumb'nut g. All the poundcrs or heaters are inverted-cup shape, cylindrical, or elliptical, and are secured to their neck 9 by the internal conically-shape'd piece which screwed on the lower end of the neckg clamps the open apex ofthe pounder between it and the flange g, or these parts may be soldered together. There may be as many of these radial poundcrs as are desired. When the shaft F is raised by the handle D, the pawl h on the arm H, attached to the handle,acting on the annular rack I on the shaft forces the shaft to turn a short distance. The lowering of the arm retracts the pawl and puts it in position to meet and engage on the next tooth of the rack when the arm I) is again raised. Th us rotary motion to the radial poundcrs may be obtained. In its higher upward movement the upper end of the pawl-arm II strikes against and raises the flaring projection 7a of the arm K, which projects partially over the tub, and at its rear end is pivoted to the part c of the base 0 some distance above the arm (I. By thus raising the arm K it is released from its confinement by the pin e on the upper free end of arm 0, attached to the sleeve E in the end of the rectangular slot k, and this release permits the shaft F to swing a little when the arm at is atits highest elevation,allowing the pounders to-tip, so that they can be raised out of the tub and thrown back until the handle rests on the pieces 0" projecting from the vertical piece 0', and will remain in that position by its weight. In this position it is easy to put the clothes, &c., into or take them from the tub; but in the ordinary movements of the mechanism the slotted arm is and pin 0 serve to hold the upper end of shaft F vertical. The beaters may have any desired configuration.

The handle D and arms d may be made in one piece or in several, and otherwise 1n the more mechanical detail I may make, changes without in any degree departing from the nature and scope my invention.

The sleeve E can be adjusted up or down on shaft F by means of set-screw m.

\Vhat I consider new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a washing-machine, the vertical and revoluble shaft F, having ponnders, as described, attached to its lower end, combined with the sleeve E, having the vertical arm 6, provided with the pin 0", the slotted arm K, the standard 0, the support B, and the handle D, substantially as described.

2. In a washing-machine, the combination of the vertical shaft F and handle D with the arms d and K, the standard 0, and the support 13, having dovetail grooves b slot I), legs I) I), and set-screws b and c, all substantially as described;

3. The combination, in a washing-machine, of the support 13, the standard 0, the arms d, the arm K, slotted at k and having projection 70, the vertical shaft provided with pounders G G, the sleeve E, the annular rack I, the setscrew 00, and the handle D, having the upwardly-extending arm H, pivoted with the pawl h, as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses. V

EMMET C. IVEBER.

\Vitnesses:

E. WV. RICHTER, J csEPH KUBAT. 

